International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 41 Issue 7

ICTs and maternal healthcare utilization. Evidence from Ghana

Gordon Abekah-Nkrumah, Marta Guerriero, Purnima Purohit

Traditionally, the role of technology on health services has been argued from the supply side. The purpose of this paper is to use a demand side perspective to examine the effect…

Relevance of the regulatory state in North/South intersections

Mark Findlay, Si Wei Lim

What seems like a new social anthropology of global regulation is an endeavour much too grand for this paper, even though it has much merit. To contain the analysis which follows…

The feminine sector: explaining the overrepresentation of women in the nonprofit sector in the USA

Young-joo Lee

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that affect a person's choice to work in a specific sector to understand the overrepresentation of women in the nonprofit…

Does social network capital buy higher agricultural prices? A case of coffee in Masaka district, Uganda

Joseph Mawejje, Stein Terje Holden

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how social network capital may facilitate agricultural household market access in Uganda. Specifically, the paper investigates if…

Earnings and education in Portugal, 1985-1991

João Sousa Andrade, Adelaide Duarte, Marta C.N. Simões

The purpose of this paper is to examine the distributions of earnings and education in Portugal in the early years of European integration, 1985 and 1991, a period when Portugal…

Green community entrepreneurship 2.0: Collective response or individual adaptation strategy to funding cuts in Canada (2006-2012)

Travis Gliedt, Paul Parker

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a second round of intensive green community entrepreneurship, a form of social entrepreneurship, by a set of environmental service…

Reclaiming Public Ownership. Making Space for Economic Democracy

Jan-Erik Lane

Why Nations Fail. The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

Jan-Erik Lane